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Somebody's Buying Vista

It's very early yet, but, at least on the consumer side, Vista sales look pretty hot. What'll be more interesting to track is corporate pick-up, which will almost assuredly (and understandably) come along more slowly.

Vista's early success comes despite talk that security for the new OS might not be all it's cracked up to be, or at least not exactly what Microsoft had in mind when it touted its most secure OS ever.

Posted by Lee Pender on 02/15/2007 at 1:20 PM

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